Favourite Era for music

[Papa G]

On the cusp? Of what?

 

[The_Big_Ship]

On the cusp? Of what?

His top played artists?

 

[La Dispute]

Yep.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Mate any list that doesn't include the Stones, Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Who, Michael Jackson, U2 for starters, you know the biggest and most famous Artists the world has ever known, is seriously taking the piss.

Damn that dude still sounds more rockin', vibrant & artistic than anyone currently breathing

 

[speedybundy]

90's for me, RHCP, INXS, H&C, Foo Fighters, Powderfinger, U2, Pearl Jam, Midnight Oil etc were all at least around at that stage if not in their peak

Worth mentioning 00-now has produced some very high quality music also. Mumford and Sons, Muse, The Killers and Boy & Bear my top picks

 

[quickstraw]

Sorry, what was your point again?

That the list you posted is rubbish. It's a pretty narrow view of all the different types of rock music that has come and gone over the last 40 years. It's almost a niche and therefore has little credibility.

Also interesting that you seem to use music as toilet paper. You listen, discard, and disassociate. There's not many bands that I have gotten into in the past that I now think are shit. I may no listen to them anymore because I've heard it too many times, but I don't discard like friend who just put on 20 kilos and became unpopular. Music isn't like that.

 

[Papa G]

Mumford and Sons are beyond shit.

INXS and the Oils best stuff came out in the 80's.

 

[quickstraw]

Mumford and Sons are beyond shit.

Yep. They are rubbish. That whole genre is rubbish. It's old man music so it's ironic that the people who like it are young and think they are happening. I wouldn't listen to that even if I was forced to put on a Billabong tee.

 

[quickstraw]

Midnight Oil peaked in 1982. Maybe earlier.

 

[La Dispute]

That the list you posted is rubbish. It's a pretty narrow view of all the different types of rock music that has come and gone over the last 40 years. It's almost a niche and therefore has little credibility.

Also interesting that you seem to use music as toilet paper. You listen, discard, and disassociate. There's not many bands that I have gotten into in the past that I now think are shit. I may no listen to them anymore because I've heard it too many times, but I don't discard like friend who just put on 20 kilos and became unpopular. Music isn't like that.

It's hardly narrow. You just haven't heard of 80% of the artists and so you pander it as shit - It's a tried and tested dad tactic.

I've engaged you in a critical discussion of all the bands you've mentioned (which wasn't difficult given how formulaic and generic your test is) and it'd be interesting to see how many you've actually engaged with and can actually critique. Calling it 'niche' and narrow is just lazy and proves you can't properly argue your point because you haven't been exposed to what you're arguing.

The last point is also ludicrous. Peoples taste evolves and as such, many of the bands change. I haven't stopped listening to The Doors or Creedence or The Clash or The Beatles.

Of course your taste hasn't changed. It's generic.

 

[Macca19]

For me its gotta be the 90s. I love 90s metal. I love 90s rave & electronica. I loved 90s pop.

 

[quickstraw]

It's hardly narrow. You just haven't heard of 80% of the artists and so you pander it as shit - It's a tried and tested dad tactic.

I can pick out enough bands in there to see a theme. Smiths, Interpol, Dinosaur Jr, Arcade Fire, Eels to name a few. All have similarities in that they are mundane, insipid, and boring. (And yes, I have a copy of Souljacker but the rest of The Eels is boring as batshit. E has a monotone voice)

RATM sticks out like a sore thumb. None of the other bands you have listed play heavy rock riffs
Kyuss is stoner rock, also a different genre to (most of) the rest. No Fu Manchu or Monster Magnet.

Whilst I don't like them, I'll give you credit for The Mars Volta which I would best describe as sprog rock.

But a lot of the rest is pretty same-samey.

 

[La Dispute]

I can pick out enough bands in there to see a theme. Smiths, Interpol, Dinosaur Jr, Arcade Fire, Eels to name a few. All have similarities in that they are mundane, insipid, and boring. (And yes, I have a copy of Souljacker but the rest of The Eels is boring as batshit. E has a monotone voice)

RATM sticks out like a sore thumb. None of the other bands you have listed play heavy rock riffs
Kyuss is stoner rock, also a different genre to (most of) the rest. No Fu Manchu or Monster Magnet.

Whilst I don't like them, I'll give you credit for The Mars Volta which I would best describe as sprog rock.

But a lot of the rest is pretty same-samey.

That's personal taste of course. All those bands are very important and I regard them highly.

Souljacker is one The Eels weakest albums. It's more rocky though so I can see why you like it.

Baroness, BTB&M, Boris, Converge, Cult of Luna, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Kylesa, La Dispute, Mastodon, QOTSA and Scale The Summit all play heavy rock riffs - What are you on about?

I like Fu Manchu as well.

You're noticeably out of your depth when discussing modern music.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Uh isn't everyone going to a leaning toward the era they were teenagers in? I mean it's what you effortlessly hear. It's what's accessible. Aside from the 1990s, it's all about the 2000s for me. Early 2000s was a pretty barren place but it birthed an album I'll always love and something you're all bickering about – Turn on the Bright Lights.

Their new stuff is insipid. They and the Strokes are the flag bearers for bands who never changed their sound and never repeated what they should've because of it.

But Turn on the Bright Lights isn't dull or uninspired or boring or shit. It's one of the most visceral albums I've ever heard. It's so rich. It speeds up and slows down where it should, and its pop moments (Obstacle 1, PDA) are as stellar as the slow-burners (but New York carrrrrrrrres, The New). It's one of the few albums I only ever listen to occasionally because I'm scared I won't get the rush little moments in it give me. It is one of the best albums of the 2000s and created what dominated alternative music for the rest of the decade: angular, post-punk-recalling guitar work and terrible emulations of d33333333p cityscapes as album artwork.

Piss all over Interpol but pissing all over TOTBL... come on

 

[Roobs321]

My dozen or so favourite artists include a lot that became active in the early 90s, or were at the height of their powers;

Autechre
Radiohead
George Michael
PJ Harvey
Bjork
Madonna
Massive Attack
A Tribe Called Quest

...just to mention a few

Therefore, if forced to pick, first half of the 90s. So many great sub-genres started up and/or peaked in this period. And I loved how these sub-genres influenced the pop charts as well. The start up of Warp Records is my favourite movement.

 

[HARKER]

I agree. That list is shit. It's like you're a JJJ fanboi. 2000s was the most insipid decade of music in history.

Well, listening to the music first, may just help.

Pretty good list for mine.

 

[HARKER]

I won't do that but I'll give you some bands that aren't there over 70s, 80s, 90's, 00s:

Talking Heads
The Police
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
Faith No More
Arctic Monkeys
Queen
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden


No doubt the author thinks "ha, those bands are mostly so old and so not cool" but the irony is that his era (The 2000s) is already old hat. It's a false economy judging music by release date. The Smiths says it all for me. Mundane and inferior but the choice of music for the hipster types of the 80s. In other words, waankers.

Very surprised this author hasn't got The Arctic Monkeys or are essentially a fusion of The Pixies and The Smiths among other influences.

You see what time does to music?

In 20 years time most will be pining for those great bands of the 90's and 00's

 

[quickstraw]

There's a massive difference between Talking Heads and Dinosaur Jnr. To peple like you who reminisce of the days of Dinosaur Jnr maybe so. But in all likelyhood only a handful of those bands will be considered worthy.

 

[HARKER]

There's a massive difference between Talking Heads and Dinosaur Jnr. To peple like you who reminisce of the days of Dinosaur Jnr maybe so. But in all likelyhood only a handful of those bands will be considered worthy.

Let history be the best judge and not just your biased recent history.

Everything has forever been better in those "good old days" It's just that the timeline changes generationally on them.

 

[class78]

It's getting really old how people that feel the need to criticise others music tastes always have the most generic taste. I'd listen to you more if you said you were into Soulja Boy than if you go to the Beatles for defence as they are seen as 'untouchable'. Reads similar to a Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums of All Time. Lame.

 

[La Dispute]

It's getting really old how people that feel the need to criticise others music tastes always have the most generic taste. I'd listen to you more if you said you were into Soulja Boy than if you go to the Beatles for defence as they are seen as 'untouchable'. Reads similar to a Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums of All Time. Lame.

You've summed up Bunsen Burner's taste to a tee.

 

[The_Big_Ship]

The 2000s are my favourite, some of these could be considered 90s, but I loved their output in this decade as well so included them.

Burial
The Knife
Autechre
Radiohead
Bjork (On the list purely for Vespertine)
The Strokes
Interpol
Boards of Canada

Blond Redhead
The Radio Dept
The Field
Amon Tobin
Beck
PJ Harvey
Grizzly Bear
Portishead

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Stars of the Lid
Spoon
Tim Hecker
Jon Hopkins
The National
Deerhunter
Max Richter

Beach House
Sigur Ros
Boris
Arcade Fire
LCD Soundsystem
William Basinski
Daft Punk
Broadcast

 

[crowsforlife]

2000's.

Though I love music from the 80s and 90s too.. Also other eras that have great singers and bands too.

 

[quickstraw]

It's getting really old how people that feel the need to criticise others music tastes always have the most generic taste. I'd listen to you more if you said you were into Soulja Boy than if you go to the Beatles for defence as they are seen as 'untouchable'. Reads similar to a Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums of All Time. Lame.

I grew up in the 80s and at the time knew I was dealt a shit sandwich. Why are you so confident that the 2000s isn't a shit sandwich? The "anyone who is old knows nothing about music" gets boring. There's no shortage of people lamenting the 2000s and they aren't all old.

Music isn't about age or era, or "old is better than new" and vice versa. People like you are as bad as the bilabong tee wearing brigade who read Rolling Stone. You're not really grasping the concept of music and age - ironically just like the people you sneer at.

And as irrelevant as Rolling Stone is, the joke is on you if you think the likes of DSOTM, EOMS, Rumours, Back in Black etc is lame.

 

[quickstraw]

You've summed up Bunsen Burner's taste to a tee.

I laugh at people like you who listen to mundane boring shit like Interpol and then have the hide to look down on people who like (among other things) what is considered as some of the best rock music ever made. It's like someone who has John McEnroe walking through Times Square print on his wall turning his nose up at someone who has a Picasso.

I bet you put Tom Waits on your list because you think it'd make you look cool.